Catherine spent her internship working with researchers at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where she had the challenge of pulling together data from multiple different places to create a database and a map of the different species of elm and elm cultivars in Britain.

You can find out more about Catherine’s experience as a CFP intern here.

Cas worked with researchers at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, learning how to use the high performance computing cluster at Queen Mary University London which she used to understand more about the elm genome.

You can find out more about Cas’ experience as a CFP intern here.

Jack spent his internship working with one of our PhD students, Fritha, and social scientists at Forest Research and the University of St Andrews. He was looking at the cultural and social connections between people and tree species that have been significantly ‘lost’ because of a tree disease, with a focus on elm.

You can find out more about Jack’s experience as a CFP intern here.

Katy spent her internship working with PhD student Jiaqi at Forest Research’s state-of-the-art containment laboratory, the Holt Lab and at the University of Birmingham’s Institute for Forestry Research (BIFoR).

You can find out more about Katy’s experience as a CFP intern here.

Apoorva spent her internship working with researchers at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew as part of the ash pangenome project. She was annotating a reference genome from an individual tree that seemed to be less susceptible to the devastating fungal tree disease ash dieback.

You can find out more about Apoorva’s experience as a CFP intern here.

Josh spent his internship with the Centre for Forest Protection learning all about identifying nematodes. He worked with PhD student Talor in the Holt Lab containment facility at Forest Research and became quite an expert in identifying the different parts of these microscopic worms.

You can find out more about Josh’s experience as a CFP intern here.